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J. B. SHOCK'S 

PRACTICAL TREATISE 

FOR SWINE AND 

OTHER LIVE STOCK 



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1884—1916 



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. B. SHOCK'S 

Practical Treatise on 

Hog Cholera, Swine Fever, 
Pneumonia 

and the Various other Diseases of Swine, 
Poultry and other 

Live Stock 

With Valuable Information as to Cause, Treatment and Cure, 
With Full Instructions. 



Showing how to compound and use the Medicines 

for all Live Stock made from the Receips 

Furnished with this Book. 



With Other Valuable Information. 



By J. B. SHOOK. 

Author of Shock's Guide for Stock Breeders, 

Standard Works of 500 pages 

Published 

1885-1887 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1917 

By J. B. SHOOK. 

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. 

All Rights Reserved. 



RECIPE WORK. 

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the 

years 1913, 1914 and 1917. 

By J. B. SHOOK. 



All Rights Reserved. 
In United States of America and Canada. 



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REMARKS. 

I am often asked this question, "Why do you 
sell your medicine recipes?" First, because 
the medicine for Diseased Hogs — Cholera, 
Swine Fever and Pneumonia, cannot be 
commer.cialized. Second, having quit practice, 
I adopted this method in place of selling my 
various medicines and remedies. Third, know- 
ing that the best way to control the diseases 
of Swine is to Educate the Swine Raisers how 
to do so. Fourth, knowing a work of this kind 
was greatly needed. I concluded to give the 
Stockmen the benefit of my life work ; believ- 
ing it will supply a long felt want. Therefore, 
to the American Farmers and Stock Breeders, 
I respectfully dedicate this work. Devoted to 
their interest and service. 



PREFACE 

The object of the author in offering this 
work to the public is to furnish to American 
Stockmen a concise and reUable treatise of do- 
mestic animals and especially Swine, as the 
experience of the author has shown him that 
such diseases as Hog Cholera, Swine Fever and 
Pneumonia — those three fatal diseases that 
carry off the hogs of the country — are less 
understood by Veterinarians, as well as the 
owners, than any other diseases of Live Stock. 
I am well aware that there are persons who 
claim there is no such a thing as Hog Cholera 
and Swine Fever, that is caused by **Germs," 
but when I meet one of those kind, I try to 
avoid any controversy; because, "Two of a 
kind have met." 

Being a Student and close Observer of the 
teachings of the most scientific men known, 
who have investigated the diseases of Swine, 
and having had over thirty years' experience 
in the treatment of these diseases, I therefore 
feel able to teach all who may wish to learn, 
what these diseases are. what causes them, 
how to avoid or successfully treat them, as 
well as the minor diseases. 

Not Theories and Suppositions, but Facts 

Eminent scientists. Doctors, Detmers, Sal- 
men, Law and others of America and Europe, 
many years ago discovered that Swine Plague 

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— Cholera and Swine Fever, were "Germ" dis- 
eases, similar to Cholera, Typhus, or Typhoid 
Fever in the human family, and are contagious 
and capable of being transmitted in various 
ways. 

It was through these men, by following their 
teachings and by observation, experiments and 
practice, I obtained my success, and I fully 
substantiate their teaching to be correct. Some 
may ask, "How successful are you?" In 1884, 
when I commenced to treat hogs for any one 
wishing my services, I always guaranteed to 
save 80 per cent, of a herd of hogs, under all 
conditions, or no pay, and cholera was the pre- 
vailing disease in those days. Some years 
later, I raised the per cent, to 90, and in treat- 
ing 500 to 1000 hogs in a neighborhood, I 
would average from 95 to 97 per cent., and 
this, when they were in all stages of the dis- 
ease and often had to be treated under very 
unfavorable conditions as to weather, etc. 

Treatment in Book and Recipe Form 

With this Book, but on a separate sheet, will 
be furnished my Recipes, showing how to 
make and use the Medicines which I used in 
my practice with hogs, and also other valuable 
ones for other stock. 

All technical or medical names have been 
avoided as much as possible, and the informa- 
tion given in plain language, and the amount of 
each drug is given in both weight and measure, 
thus adapting it to the wants of the Farmer 
and Stockmen, so he can easily use them, thus 
fining a long-felt want, not only as to relia- 

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bility, but as to cost as well, being inexpensive 
and easy to use. In this work I do not recom- 
mend one medicine for all uses, as has to be 
done, as a rule, in a ready-to-use medicine, but 
explain the symptoms so one can tell as a rule 
what ails his stock ; then show what to use 
to treat them, which is the most successful 
way it can be done. I do not claim it is the 
only medical treatment, which is the proper 
treatment, that will prevent or eradicate Swine 
diseases; but by far the most successful one 
that has ever come under my observation, and 
judging from what many others say, who have 
used it, or saw it used, in the past 28 years, 
this claim is fully substantiated. 

Sold by Responsible Agents 

For the protection of the Public, as well as 
the Author, this work will be sold by Reliable 
and Responsible agents, who will be furnished 
with proper credentials, so any one in buying 
it can rely upon getting it in its true and com- 
plete form. 



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CHAPTER L 

Investigation of Swine Disease by Dr. H. J. 

Detmers, James Law and Others — Their 

Discoveries — Germ Theory — Opponents of 

the Germ Theory — Proof Thereof — Why 

Summer is the Most Dangerous Season. 

Investigations by the Government 

In support of the practical experience of the 
author set forth in the preceding pages, I can- 
not do better perhaps than to give some ex- 
tracts from Drs. James Law and H. J. Det- 
mers, in their excellent report to the Commis- 
sioner of Agriculture of the United States, in 
1880, upon the cause and effects of hog cholera, 
swine fever, or what they called hog fever or 
swine plague. In experimenting in this direc- 
tion and others. Dr. H. J. Detmers and Dr. 
James Law, while investigating this disease in 
the fall and winter of 1879 and 1880, being a 
part of the commission as appointed by the 
government, made discoveries which I consider 
of great value, and I will give such extracts 
from their report as I think may be useful to 
the general farmer, in order to show more 
plainly the cause and effect of hog cholera or 
swine fever and its treatment. Dr. Detmers 
says: ''When I first commenced my investiga- 
tion, I had clear sailing, because an abundance 
of material was always available. The disease 
presented itself almost everywhere in its malig- 
nant form. I endeavored first to ascertain the 
nature and the cause or causes of the disease, 
the means and manner of its spreading, and 

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the working of its morbid process ; secondly, 
to discover the means necessary to check its 
spreading and to prevent its outbreak, and to 
learn the most practical means of prevention, 
that is, such as would most likely be the least 
objectionable to the farmers, and prove both 
effective and easy of apphcation; thirdly, to 
ascertain whether and to what extent an at- 
tack of swine-plague terminating in recovery 
is able to destroy further predisposition or to 
produce immunity from the effects of a sub- 
sequent infection. Hence, as it was my inten- 
tion to find reliable means of prevention, and 
to subject the preventives to a severe test, it 
was not advisable to inoculate from any case 
of swine-plague that presented itself or was 
convenient. But I made my selections, and 
only used material from malignant and typical 
cases of swine-plague, also refusing to use any 
material from cases showing putrefaction; 
therefore, I am sure I have made no mis- 
takes." 

Its Infectious or Contagious Character 

"When the disease has assumed a malignant 
form, it is the same as the Asiatic cholera, or 
typhus or typhoid fever of the human 
family, and being infectious or contagious, and 
capable of being germinated, propagated and 
transported in various ways, which proves it 
is a Germ disease." 

"It has been a great mystery to the farmer 
how the disease spreads from place to place 
without apparent actual contact. It was like 
fighting in the dark to attempt to prevent it, 

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and many gave up in despair and saying, 'what 
will die, will die anyway.' 

'There is no doubt but what the infectious 
nature of the disease may, under a predispos- 
ing condition of local causes, etc., take the con- 
tagious form, which is far more malignant, 
sweeping and fatal in character. That a few 
spasmodic cases may occur in a drove, which 
if neglected, may so increase in number and 
violence as to become highly contagious. This 
contagious matter is of a fixed character, and 
is present in the blood, the discharges, and 
of course in the place inhabited. It possesses 
great vitality, and will transmit the disease to 
well hogs, whenever they come in contact with 
these poisonous discharges, or where sick hogs 
have been.'' 

Opponents of the Germ Theory 

The Doctor, in support of his theory, says: 
"The opponents of the so-called germ theory 
of disease, well knowing that a complete sepa- 
ration of the germs from the animal tissues 
and fluids is impossible, demand absolute 
proof, without offering any evidence whatever 
in support of their own 'theories' or even 
demonstrating the existence of anything akin 
to what they claim constitutes the cause and 
infectious principle of infectious diseases." 

"As further proof that the swine plague 
germ and nothing else constitutes the infec- 
tious principle of swine plague, he offers the 
following: First, if one Inoculates a well hog 
with the Virus of a hog that has the swine 
plague, it will contract the disease, and this 

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virus can be retained for quite a while, and 
favorably cultivated in urine or other liquids 
and if healthy hogs are inoculated with it, it 
proves fatal. Second, if a portion of a hog that 
has died of cholera is fed to a well hog, it 
proves fatal, and. healthy hogs will contract 
the disease if allowed to be where diseased 
hogs have been. Third, if one goes among 
sick hogs and then among well ones, the dis- 
ease can be spread in this and various other 
ways. In warm weather, and especially if 
wet, the disease spreads from farm to farm, 
and much faster than in cold weather. All 
these things prove that the disease is con- 
tagious. Therefore any one should be careful 
and avoid anything that will convey or spread 
the disease." 

Treatment Produces Immunity 

Dr. Detmers says: *'It can and may attack 
one and the same animal twice, and even three 
times, but if it does, the second and third at- 
tacks are always mild ones and not apt to 
prove fatal, unless complicated with other dis- 
eases. As a rule, however, the first attack, 
provided the animal recovers, produces im- 
munity from the effects of a subsequent infec- 
tion, at any rate for some time, and it may be 
for life. An interrupted attack, that has been 
prevented from causing serious morbid 
changes, by Medical treatment, as a rule, 
seems to produce Immunity." 

How it Affects the Organs 

"The morbid process of swine plague can 
have its seat in almost any organ or part of 

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the body. Yet it must be considered as charac- 
teristic of the disease, that the lungs ■ invari- 
ably are more or less affected, and constitute 
in a large number of cases the principal seat of 
the morbid process, though the intestines and 
liver may, and in most cases do, show to be 
effected." 

'The intensity of this contagious matter 
seems also to vary according to the form and 
malignancy of the disease. The period which 
elapses between exposure and the attack is 
not always the same, varying with the form 
the disease assumes, from a few hours to a 
few weeks. As we have stated before, an in- 
fectious disease may become malignant and 
contagious, and one form of the disease does 
not necessarily impart the same type to an- 
other, but depends more upon the primary seat 
of the malady in the patient. It may take the 
enteric form or the external carbuncular char- 
acter. It may localize its attacks on certain 
organs with well defined symptoms, which are 
more prolonged in their results, or, it may af- 
fect the whole organization, and destroy life 
in a few hours.'' 

When the Death Rates Increase 

'The death rate in a herd of affected swine 
is increased or decreased respectively by the 
malignancy of the disease, which, it seems, de- 
pends largely, on the one hand, upon the 
rapidity with which the swine plague germs 
develop and propagate, and on the other hand, 
upon the size of the herd, the condition of the 
premises on which they are kept, the number 

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of diseased animals in the herd, and the mode 
and manner in which the animals are attended 
to. 

Everything else being equal, the mortality 
as a rule, will be the greater, the more rapidly 
the disease is spreading from one animal to 
another, and the more abundant the infectious 
principle. This is easily explained. The larger 
the herd and the greater the number of 
animals diseased at the same time, the greater 
is also the quantity of the excretions from the 
bowels and urine containing the swine germs. 

The chief cause of the disease spreading is 
by the well coming in contact with the dis- 
charges of the sick. Therefore, one can see 
how important it is to, at once, remove a sick 
hog from the herd when first noticed. Hogs 
in large numbers or diseased ones should not 
be allowed to sleep about old straw stacks, etc., 
because nothing is more apt to absorb the con- 
tagious or infectious principle, and to preserve 
it longer or more effectively than old straw, 
hay, or manure heaps, composed mostly of hay 
or straw for the contagion that is absorbed by 
or clings to such material will remain effective 
and be a source of spreading the disease for a 
long time." Material of this kind should be 
hauled out and spread over a field, where it 
will lose its poisonous nature. 

Intestine and Lung Worms 

"In my post-mortem examinations I fre- 
quently found worms in the stomach and intes- 
tines, also in the bronchial tubes and lungs. 
But these worms do not constitute the cause 

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of swine plague, and their presence is merely 
an accidental complication, well calculated, 
though, to increase the malignancy of the mor- 
bid process, because their presence necessarily 
weakens the constitution of the animal, and 
thus facilitates the operations of the germs. 
On the other hand, worms always thrive better 
in a diseased or declining organism than in a 
healthy animal." 

Author — This is what I have tried to teach 
Stockmen for years, that "worms are not the 
cause of cholera," as advocated by some, but 
that they were injurious to hogs and should 
be removed, if the hog is expected to thrive as 
it should, and avoid other troubles. Also, as 
to the burning of diseased hogs that have died, 
for by so doing the danger of spreading the 
disease by allowing the dead lying around ex- 
posed is obviated, and the germs are entirely 
destroyed. This is much better than to bury 
them — no matter how deep — for the germs 
may be carried through some drain to a stream 
and in this way introduce and spread the dis- 
ease. 

Time Between Exposure and Attacks 

The experiments of Drs. Law, Detmers, Sal- 
men, Sutton, Budd, Osier and others, in inocu- 
lating sound hogs with the Virus (poisoned 
blood of sick ones), have shown the period of 
incubation to vary greatly, sometimes proving 
fatal the first day, and in other instances, not 
until the fifteenth day. Dr. Detmers gives 
the period, ''from five to fifteen days, or an 
average of seven days." The author's experi- 

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ence and observation in having well hogs with 
sick ones, have placed the period of infection 
from three to thirteen days, but the majority 
of cases occuring in from seven to nine days. 

"The intensity of this contagious matter 
seems to vary according to the form and 
malignancy of the disease. The period which 
elapses between exposure and the attack is not 
always the same, varying with the form the 
disease assumes, from a few hours to a few 
weeks. As we have stated before, an infec- 
tious disease may become malignant and con- 
tagious, and one form of the disease does not 
necessarily impart the same type to another, 
but depends more upon the primary seat of 
the malady in the patient. It may take the 
enteric form or the external carbuncular char- 
acter. It may localize its attacks on certain 
organs with well defined symptoms, which are 
more prolonged in their results, or, it may af- 
fect the whole organization, and destroy life in 
a few hours." 

This information as given by the learned 
doctors who are as high authority as we have 
on the subject, will show why all hogs are not 
sick alike (symptoms the same), and that the 
time between exposure to the disease and its 
attack, depends very much on the health of 
the hogs; a strong, healthy one, as a rule, will 
resist the disease much longer than a weak 
one. It also shows that if hogs are inoculated 
with Virus (blood of cholera hogs), that it will 
transmit the disease and prove more or less 
malignant and contagious. 

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Suggestions Followed 

Dr. Koch, an eminent German scientist and 
a standard authority on cholera in the human 
species, says: "Cholera will have but little 
effect among those who keep the digestive 
organs, and the kidney and liver in a healthful 
condition." Following this suggestion of Dr. 
Koch's, as well as those of Drs. Detmers, Sal- 
menand Law, who says: 'The system can be 
habituated to the poison and fortified against 
it, by a succession of doses of medicines, for 
if a germ is once introduced, though of miti- 
gated fever, it may increase so as to develop 
to an altogether unexpected degree. Pains 
should be taken to supply and furnish them 
with proper remedies, for if administered in 
time, not only will the diseases arising from 
local causes be removed or prevented, but ex- 
posure of the herd to swine fever, cholera, 
however contagious, will not result disas- 
trously." 

The explanation given as to what Hog 
Cholera, Swine Fever is, what causes it, and 
how it is transmitted from one hog or place to 
another, is based upon scientific work by Drs. 
H. J. Detmers, James Law, Salmen and other 
Government experts and thoroughly tested in 
the field by the author and approved of. 
Therefore, I believe, they will be admitted to 
be correct when studied also that my method 
of treatment is correct and my remedies effec- 
tual when properly used. 



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CHAPTER II 
Introductory Treatise on Swine — Assist Na- 
ture — Oxygen — Prevention — General Case — 
Medicine for General Use — How to Use. 

Pork is King in America 

And the channel through which our grain 
and grass finds a ready market throughout the 
world. In raising Swine the nearer we ap- 
proach nature the better. This is more force- 
ably brought to mind when we remember 
"nature never makes any mistakes." 

Diseased hogs have caused the consumption 
of pork in this country to greatly decrease and 
has more to do with its refusal than any other 
cause. Once the American farmer learns to 
raise healthy hogs and quits sendmg diseased 
hogs to market (which is both wrong and un 
lawful), we can easily induce all foreign peo- 
ple, as well as our own, to use our pork, which 
from a financial standpoint as well as a health- 
ful one, will be a great gain. 

Never Abuse, but Assist Nature 

Domestication should not be allowed to 
change the physical condition of Swine, and 
artificial means should be employed to supply 
what nature requires. Swine by nature are 
calculated to root for such things as their sys- 
tem requires, such as roots, insects, reptiles, 
earthly substances, etc., the natural excitants 
of the stomach, liver and bowels, and which 
have a tendency to keep the digestive organs 
and the kidneys and liver in a healthy condi- 

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tion. This is why cholera was unknown when 
Swine were allowed the wild range and to roam 
at will. 

Domestication and the cultivation of the 
lands have deprived them of these natural 
antidotes, and made them an easy prey to dis- 
ease, which is the cause of cholera (swine 
fever) and other diseases. Anyone can see 
how important it is to supply them with an 
artificial antidote that has the same medical 
properties as the natural one, which will over- 
come the evil effect of domestication, and so 
strengthen the system as to resist the attacks 
of the germs of disease when coming in con- 
tact with them and also prevent them from be- 
coming sick from any local cause, as malarious 
poison, over feeding, etc., for if the hogs are 
in perfect health they are not liable to become 
sick from any local cause and if the parasites 
or germs of disease are taken into the system 
in any way they will not propagate (increase) 
in a healthy body near so rapidly as in a weak 
and unhealthy one; again, if the system is in 
perfect working order, these poisonous para- 
sites or germs pass off through the natural 
channels, the bowels and urine, more rapidly 
than with an irregular one, thereby preventing 
the disease from becoming fatal. 



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Oxygen — Pure Air Necessary 

It should be borne in mind that the hog re- 
quires more Oxygen (pure air) in proportion 
to its size than any other domestic animal. 
Nature has so constructed him that he carries 
his nose closer to the ground, thereby inhaling 

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more malarious poison, germs of disease, etc., 
sleeps in more confined places and in greater 
numbers than other domestic animals (there- 
fore gets less Oxygen) which is one of the 
principal causes of disease. To evade this sup- 
ply them with suitable sleeping quarters, not 
too many in a place, keep them out of old straw 
stacks, manure heaps, dusty barns, etc., and in 
cold weather bed liberally and keep their beds 
clean. Corn fodder, leaves and prairie hay is 
better than straw, as it does not become foul 
and damp so quickly. 

This is something that should be borne in 
mind, and especially if sick hogs are confined 
in close hog houses, to not fail to have plenty 
of overhead ventilation, as the air becomes 
very poisonous and causes the disease to be- 
come of a chronic form, making it much harder 
to treat the sick or stop its spreading. 

Prevention Better Than Cure 

Remember the old adage, "an ounce of pre- 
vention is worth a pound of cure," and in no 
case is this more true than in Swine raising. 

Having briefly enumerated the principal 
causes of Cholera (Swine fever), and how it 
spreads, in support of the germ theory, you 
will understand how important it is to look 
carefully after your hogs when there is any 
disease in the neighborhood or country, and 
upon the first indication of disease (if not be- 
fore) give them attention. 

Special Remarks as to Treatment — As a 
rule, it is the close observer and careful handler 
of stock that is the most successful ; close ob- 

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servation and prompt action are two essential 
things (especially with sick stock) ; again, any 
one using medicine with stock, should remem- 
ber that old or large animals require more 
than small young ones. Therefore read and 
study the directions herein given carefully, and 
do as directed, if you wish to obtain best re- 
sults, as I believe they will be found correct 
and reliable if given a fair trial. I know there 
is no rule or advice that can be given that every 
one can, or will, follow to the letter; but if 
followed as near as circumstances will permit, 
I do not fear the results or criticism. One 
thing to remember, that is, just as soon as it 
is noticed that the hogs (are off) not doing 
well, it is best to give them attention at once. 
Delays are dangerous. 

Directions as a Preventive 

See Recipe No. 1 — Take the amount of each 
Drug as given by each number, mix well and 
use as follows : Take one pint of the medicine 
and dissolve it in water and wet one bushel of 
bran, mill-feed, oats or use in ten gallons of 
swill (slop), for thirty to sixty head as to size 
(large hogs require more than small ones), at 
a feed. When feeding old corn, wheat, or on 
dry pasture, this remedy should be given as 
above, twice a week regularly, as such feed is 
liable to cause fever and constipation. Or 
when there is any disease in the neighborhood. 
At all times it should be used at least once a 
week ; twice is better, and especially in the fall 
and winter when the hogs are off of grass, for 
that is when they need the most care. 

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This remedy will not only be found a reliable 
preventive against disease; but it will cause 
the hogs to take on flesh much faster than 
when not used, thereby saving time and feed. 
All hogs should have at least one feed of soft 
laxative food a week. That makes it so easy 
to give this remedy, and it should not be neg- 
lected, as it costs so little to use it. Another 
thing, remember ''Water and Salt" are two es- 
sential things for hogs. The hog is the most 
feverish animal there is, therefore requires 
more water than others. This should be pure 
and fresh. Avoid stagnant pools. Give them 
salt every day or two, or keep soda salt by 
them. 

How made. 8ee Recipe No. 7 — Or, add one 

pint of salt and one-half pint of soda to ten 
gallons of water, and soak the corn in it. Old 
corn treated in this way will put on much more 
flesh to the bushel than fed dry, as it aids 
digestion and keeps the system in order, so the 
full benefit of the food is obtained. It is not 
the amount of food a hog eats that pays, it is 
what it turns into flesh. The Remedy will aid 
greatly to do this by keeping the hog healthy 
and causing it to better digest its food. 

Knowing that the main bulk of the hogs of 
the country are raised and fed off by the small 
farmers or feeders, these directions and treat- 
ment can be followed by most of them ; but as 
there are cases where it is difficult to do so, 
I advise the making and use of the Hog Tonic, 
as advised in Recipe No. 5, also one of the Salt 
Tonics. See Recipe No. 7 or 8, so hogs can 
have free access to them at all times. 

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For Sows — Use the remedy No. 1 two or 
three days before and after farrowing. Dose, 
a level tablespoonful once a day. This will re- 
move all fever and cause a greater flow of 
milk; then use it once or twice a week there- 
after, which will keep both sows and pigs 
healthy, providing reasonable sanitary means 
are observed. Keep them out of old straw 
stacks, manure heaps or dusty barns, and stag- 
nant pools in warm weather, and away from 
sick hogs, or where they have been. This 
medicine is all that is necessary to use as a 
preventative or when hogs are not doing well 
— off their feed — or in mild cases of sickness. 

A Few Don'ts Dedicated to the Swine Raisers 

— If you have this treatise, don't expect it to 
protect your hogs unless you use it, for it 
won't, tlse it as directed. If you are treating 
sick hogs, don't expect to cure all of them; 
that in most cases is impossible. Don't ship 
them, for some one will eat this diseased meat. 

For information other than given, please 
examine other parts of the book, of the Recipe 
Work Furnished, or write, as any information 
wanted will be furnished those having the 
work. 

Address, 

J. B. Shook, Columbus, 0. 



CHAPTER III 
Treatise on Diseased Hogs 

Introduction. — Hog Cholera, Swine Fever, 
Typhoid Pneumonia and Their Symptoms. — 
Directions for General Treatment. — How to 
Mix the Medicine for Cholera and Other 
Uses. — Incurable Cases. 

The following treatise on diseased hogs is 
based upon practical knowledge and scientific 
principles, from work, careful study, exper- 
ience and practice in the field by the author 
from 1884 to 1916. The marked progress made 
during the past years in the practice of treat- 
ing diseased swine, and the demand for more 
information upon this subject from my numer- 
ous patrons renders a new volume upon these 
subjects indispensably necessary. Not that the 
principles of my medical practice have been 
materially changed, but greatly improved upon 
and simplified. I will in this edition give the 
added experience of those years of constant 
labor and observation in my only and chosen 
profession; and in presenting my works to the 
public, I feel confident that if the rules herein 
given are carefully carried out, that the most 
of any diseased lot of hogs can be saved, and 
the disease entirely eradicated or prevented on 
any farm or in any neighborhood, and hun- 
dreds of farmers and feeders that have tried it, 
testify to the same. 

Symptoms Explained 

The location of the internal organs are nearly 
the same in a hog as in a man, and as far as 

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practicable the treatment is about the same. 
This I firmly believe. 

I do not cure every disease known to swine 
with one mixture of drugs, but explain in a 
plain way the different symptoms of the differ- 
ent diseases, so one can tell what ails the hogs, 
and therefore know what to do for them and 
not think, or be led to believe that every ailment 
the hogs may show, is cholera. 

Drugs Plainly Described 

The name of the drugs and the amount of 
each is given in a plain way, so any person of 
common capacity can understand and use it. 
Although I do not use the common drugs which 
are used in most proprietary hog medicines, or 
by farmers who have recipes of their own; 
such as copperas, sulphur, glauber salts, resin, 
saltpetre, or borax, yet the drugs which I do 
use are cheap, and as easily obtained and 
handled as those named. My mode of admin- 
istering medicine to swine — in fact, the only 
successful way, is to mix it in their drink or 
wet feed. Being less manageable than any 
other stock they obstinately resist all attempts 
at coercion or drenching. If hogs are too far 
gone to eat or drink, the chances of recovery 
are against them, but by careful treatment even 
in this stage of the disease, very often they 
can be saved. In my treatment, as to the man- 
agement and the administering of the medicine, 
I shall endeavor to make it so plain and prac- 
tical that any person can read and readily un- 
derstand it, and by its practice make the treat- 
ing of diseased swine a success. 

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This treatise has been thoroughly tested by- 
many of the best breeders and feeders of Ohio 
and other states, not only as a cure and pre- 
ventive for the many local diseases, but as a 
cure and preventive for the swine plague in its 
most malignant and contagious form. It bears 
their unqualified endorsements. The testimon- 
ials used by me in any way are all bona fide, 
and from persons of good standing in their re- 
spective communities or professions. 

And now, during my extensive practice in 
treating diseased swine, which has brought me 
in pleasant intercourse with many of the most 
prominent breeders and extensive feeders, and 
in sincere appreciation of their many courtesies 
and favors, especially in tendering their names 
and influence in commendation and endorse- 
ment of my system of treatment, or in testi- 
mony of services in the past, I respectfully sub- 
scribe this volume. 

Treatment for Sick Hogs 

Hog Cholera, Swine Fever, Pneumonia 

I will first mention the three most fatal dis- 
eases known to swine, and their symptoms, and 
known all over the country as hog cholera — 
swine fever. With cholera, the symptoms are 
vomiting and purging, and often attacked by 
severe cramps, as with colic, run backwards, or 
turn in a circle and fall over in convulsions. 
Those thus attacked generally refuse to eat, 
but frequently the appetite remains good until 
death, which occurs within a shorter period of 
time than any other disease. At death, if not 
before, they turn red and purple all along the 

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underside of the body and at death, bloat more 
than with any other disease. If the nose, 
(snout) turns very blue, at any stage of the 
disease, or they bleed at the nose or ears, it is 
safe to say cholera, and it requires prompt 
treatment to save them for they then die 
quickly. 

Treatment — Use the medicine as made from 
Recipe No. 1, using the amount of each drug as 
given. Then add to this the drugs Nos. 7 and 
8 of Recipe 2. Mix well, then use a good pint 
of this medicine in eight (8) gallons of good 
laxative swill, use oil meal, ground oats or 
bran in the swill. Add to this the liquids as 
advised, Nos. 9 and 10, Recipe 2. Stir the swill 
well to dissolve the drugs; then feed the hogs 
at least twice a day for 2 or 3 days. As soon as 
they show recovery (getting better) then use 
the medicine No. 1 with 8 and 10; feed twice 
a day for a few days. This as a rule is suffi- 
tient, but there are sometimes, some hogs that 
will have to be kept under treatment longer, 
as they recover more slowly. Therefore, be 
patient. 

One or two quarts of the food is enough as 
to size of hog. Feed until you see it has taken 
effect. This you can tell, as their passages 
will be free and regular. 

Then use less remedy and more feed for a 
week or more, as they improve. Feed but lit- 
tle old corn or wheat, unless it is soaked in the 
swill, soft food is best, have plenty of troughs 
and keep them clean (to wash out the troughs 
with carbolic acid, a tablespoonful of the crude 
acid to one gallon of water is good), separate 

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the sick from the well and put the well ones by 
themselves in a clean lot, and the weak or small 
ones from the large, so they can drink when 
you feed them, as your success will depend very 
much on how carefully they are cared for ; mid 
it's the well coming in contact with the pas- 
sages of the sick, that causes the disease to 
spread. Therefore it is best to treat them in 
an open lot, in mild weather, an orchard or 
wood lot, than in a pen. In warm weather give 
them shade and keep them away from water, 
unless they drink the swill when fed. As a 
rule a dry lot, without grass or water, is the 
best place for them. In cold weather bed well 
with corn fodder or clean straw, kept dry; old 
straw stacks, manure heaps and dusty barns 
must be avoided; when kept in pens, keep the 
pens clean and use lime on the floor freely; it 
is also very beneficial to use the carbolic acid 
water, to sprinkle the hogs iwth once a day 
for 2 or 3 days, especially the sick. If they 
show vermin, (lice) grease them freely with 
crude petroleum (common black) oil. This 
will rid them of the pests and is healing and 
beneficial in every way. 

Note — Nos. 9 and 10 are the best agents 
known to Cure or Prevent inflammation of the 
bowels or intestines with stock, and should be 
used in cases of sickness as herein advised: 

Hemorrhage— When the discharges of hogs 
are bloody, or they bleed at the nose or ears, 
use No. 10. Dose: One-fourth teaspoonful or 
less as to size of hogs, or 2 tablespoonfuls in 6 
gallons of slop. 

How to Make a Barrel of Slop for Sick Hogs 

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— For 45 or 50 gallons of slop (swill) take 2 
bushels of bran, mill feed, or ground grain (ex- 
cept corn). Then add the amount of all the 
drugs as given in the recipe from 1 to 8. Then 
add one-half gallon of Oil, No. 9, and one-fourth 
to one-third pint of No. 10 ; then fill the barrel 
with water and sweet milk. Stir well so as to 
dissolve the medicine, and mix thoroughly. Al- 
ways stir well when using, and add no more 
liquid until about used up. This is the better 
plan to fix the food when feeding many hogs, 
and will feed 100 head of average sized hogs 
a day. Feed twice or three times a day. Or 
will feed 100 head of large hogs once. When 
hogs refuse to drink the slop, sprinkle some 
food over it in the trough to entice them to 
eat, and keep them away from water so they 
will get thirsty and cause them to drink. 

How to Drench — If the hog won't drink the 
swill, take a tablespoonful — or less, as to size 
of hog — of the remedy, dissolve it in oil or 
water, and give it as a drench. To do this, 
catch the hog and put a small rope around its 
upper jaw, take a small soft shoe, cut the toe 
off, put this in its mouth, then pour the medi- 
cine in the shoe and wash it down. In this 
way you won't injure it when it squeals. Or 
you can drench with a strong bottle it you press 
the tongue down with a stick. Do not run 
them or be rough, or give the medicine when 
squealing, or you vdll kill them ; repeat the dose 
twice a day until they drink, then use the swill 
as for sick hogs. 

For Sick Pigs — That are old enough to drink, 
should be treated in this way: Take a gallon 

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or more of the medicated swill prepared for 
hogs, then use the same amount of milk or 
good house slops, and is better made hot in cold 
weather, then mix the two, which is strong 
enough for pigs ; or prepare swill for them and 
use only one-half as much remedy as for large 
hogs. Dose of medicine, a teaspoonful or less, 
as to size of pig. 

For Any Diseased Hogs — This information 
as given can be applied to any herd of diseased 
hogs, except as to the Medicine. Except for 
Cholera hogs — I never use the drug No. 7, Re- 
cipe 2, and No. 8 only for 3 days, unless they 
are badly afflicted, but always use Nos. 9 and 
10 and especially 10 with all diseased hogs. 
Even for coughing or wormy hogs it is bene- 
ficial when used with the medicine No. 1. 

When Medicines Fail — When sanitary means 
are neglected, any medical treatment will fail. 
When hogs are allowed to pile up in rotten 
straw or bed in manure, either in or out of the 
stable, it is not worth while to give them any 
medicine ; and disenf octants are of no avail 
That cause must be removed. 

SWINE FEVER, SYMPTOMS 

Lameness, sluggishness, loss of appetite, 
with disposition to keep their bed, being Cold, 
Chilly or Feverish and as the disease increases, 
swollen ears and nose. Often Sloughing sores 
of the feet, nose, ears and body occur, showing 
Gangrene form, the same as with Cholera in the 
malignant (worst) form. Therefore, at times 
is difficult to determine, for the hog, with 

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either disease, when it is in the malignant 
form, may show Similar, or the same Symp- 
toms, but not in the first stage or when at- 
tacked. But is just as difficult to treat as Chol- 
era, and generally takes longer, as the disease 
is like Typhoid Fever, with the Human family, 
Lingering and Treacherous; therefore, prompt 
treatment is necessary at the first appearance 
of the disease, and as it is very contagious, 
those showing sickness should be at once put 
by themselves. As a rule it is best to move 
the well ones to clean quarters and leave the 
sick in the affected place. Then all should be 
put under treatment for others not showing 
any signs of the disease may show it in a few 
days and it is not near as hard to check it 
then as it is after it has attacked the whole 
herd. 

Treatment — The same as Cholera, except I 
never use drug No. 7, Recipe 2 and No. 8 only 
for the first few feeds. Then the medicine No. 
1 and 9 and 10 with it. 

Pneumonia 

Symptoms, the same as Swine Fever in its 
first stage, except it is accompanied by severe 
coughing and difficult breathing. As a rule this 
is quickly cured if taken in time. Treatment — 
The same as Swine Fever, or use medicine No. 1 
and 9 and 10 with it. Prompt action is very 
necessary, as this disease kills five hogs of the 
country to where Cholera kills one and espec- 
ially in the late fall and winter. Warm quar- 
ters for the hogs with good bedding is very nec- 
essary in bad weather. With those that have 

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difficulty of breathing, bathe their throats and 
chest well with coal oil and turpentine ; use two 
parts oil and one of turpentine. 

Sloughing Sores — Gangrene 

Sores of the feet, ears or body often occur 
with badly diseased hogs. To cure this use 
any good turpentine liniment, or use turpen- 
tine one-half pint, spirits of camphor one 
ounce and carbolic acid one-fourth ounce. Shake 
well and bathe the sores once or twice a day; 
heals quickly. 

Indications or Symptoms of Disease 

A few of the symptoms indicating the pres- 
ence of disease, which may develop into a fatal 
form unless removed, are as follows: Cough- 
ing, Costiveness, Leanness, Unthriftiness, Hair 
Rough and inclined to keep their beds are symp- 
toms of worms or cold if nothing more. A few 
feeds of soft laxative food, bran or oats, with 
the remedy as made from Recipe No. 1 and No. 
10, Recipe 2, will cure these cases, and save a 
great amount of food and anxiety. It is not 
the amount of food a hog eats that pays, it is 
what it turns into flesh. For severe cases of 
worms, see Recipe No. 4 for special drug to use, 
which I have had to use at times with bad or 
stubborn cases or when I wished quick results. 
Dose for a hog of 100 pounds or more, from 2 
to 4 grains. Pigs, 1/2 "to 1 grain as to size. Or 
in its place (the drug advised) add 1 pound of 
powdered Worm Seed to Recipe No. 1, or 10 
quarts of the mixed medicine, then use the 
same, one pint to 8 gallons of swill. 

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Pigs with Scours — Often young pigs take the 
scours when sucking. In cases of this kind 
give the sow a dose or two of the remedy, and 
the pigs will get the effects through the milk. 
If they will eat or drink, take sweet milk and 
boil it, then mix mill feed and the remedy in it, 
and feed. This effects a cure quickly. Save 
the Pig crop, for the Hog crop depends upon 
this. No Pigs, no Hogs. Therefore take care 
of the Sows and Pigs. Use medicine made of 
Recipe No. 1. 

For Thumps — Give the remedy twice a day. 
as directed for the sick, Medicine No. 1 and No. 
10, Recipe 2, and apply turpentine or turpen- 
tine and coal oil over the heart and chest. For 
Kidney Disease, treat the same, except to apply 
liniment over the kidneys. For Sore Throat 
or a bad Cough, treatment as above (or give a 
dose dry) and bathe the throat. 

Milk Fever often occurs with Sows. Symp- 
toms, sow keeps her bed, refuses to eat, loses 
flesh, and gives no milk. Treatment, use the 
usual dose of Medicine No. 1, and other as ad- 
vised in Recipe No. 3. 

CHAPTER IV 

Recipes, Explanation and Directions 

Recipe No. 1. The medicine as made from 
this Recipe is for general use as a Preventative 
of Disease and Worms and even in mild cases 
of sickness as prescribed will be found reliable 
and also will cause hogs to thrive much faster 
than when not used ; therefore, should be made 
and used as advised once or twice a week at all 

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times. A pint of the medicine is enough for 
thirty hogs or sixty pigs, as to size, at a feed, 
as it will be found as strong as any medicine 
bought that costs from 30 to 50 cents per 
pound; though it can be made for 15 cents or 
less, per pound in amount 8 1-3 pounds as ad- 
vised in the Recipe, or about 8 cents, in amount 
of 50 pounds or more. For further informa« 
tion on how to make and use it, see Recipe 1 
and 5, and Chapter II in Book. 

The Drugs to make this medicine can be had 
by those owning the Recipe work at the follow- 
ing prices, 50 pounds, six times the amount of 
each drug as given in Recipe, each drug in a 
package, marked, name and amount, so there 
is no deception or mistake. Price $4.00. Mix 
it Yourself. 100 pounds or more, 8 cents or 
less per pound, or can be got of a good druggist 
at prices named. 

Notice^ — See Recipe 6 for Medicine for other 
Stock and it will show that drug No. 5, in 
Recipe 1 must be omitted (left out) and another 
drug used in its place to make this medicine 
for other stock than hogs. I call attention to 
that here for this reason : That any one wishing 
to make both medicines, can get 50 pounds of 
drugs of Recipe No. 1 and the amount needed 
of the drug in No. 6 for $5.00. Then they can 
divide the drugs Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6, Recipe 1, 
in equal parts, using drug No. 5, in one mixture 
for Hogs and the extra drug, in the other, for 
other Stock or Poultry, and also use the Hog 
medicine to make a Hog Tonic, for to use in a 
Self Feeder, and the other medicine to make 
a Stock Food, as advised in Recipes No. 5 and 6, 

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Recipe No. 2 — Used for Diseased Hogs, Chol- 
era, Swine Fever, Pneumonia, see Recipe as to 
drugs to use with medicine, made of Recipe No. 
1. Use drug No. 7 only for 3 or 4 feeds, as it 
is a strong emetic ; causes them to vomit. 

How to Make the Medicine — Mix drugs Nos. 
7 and 8, using the amount of each one as given, 
with those of Recipe No. 1, as given, or take 
a gallon of the Medicine No. 1 and mix the other 
drugs, 7 and 8 with it. Then use a pint of this 
medicine in 8 gallons of good laxative swill, 
and add the amount of Nos. 9 and 10 as ad- 
vised. For Treatment, see Chapter 3. Dose 
of this medicine, or of No. 1 is a level table- 
spoonful for a large (200) pound hog; 1/2 table- 
spoonful for a 100-pound hog, a teaspoonful for 
a 50-pound pig (shoat). For pigs that will 
eat, a heaping tablespoonful in a gallon of 
swill is enough for 6 to 10 head as to size and 
age. 

Recipe No. 3 — For Milk Fever with Sows, 
which often occurs. Symptoms — Sow keeps her 
bed, refuses to eat, loses flesh and gives no 
milk. Treatment — add 10 to 15 drops of Nux 
Vomica, or 5 of Tincture of Aconite, to a level 
tablespoonful of medicine Nos. 1 or 6, and give 
as a dose twice a day for two days, then once a 
day if necessary. Avoid overfeeding or com. 

Recipe No. 4. — For Severe Cases of Worms, 
Symptoms — Hair rough, feed poorly, pot bel- 
lied, cramps, or spasms, often mistaken for 
Cholera, occurs more with fall or winter pigs. 
Treatment, see Recipe 4, what to use. This 
drug is very expensive and sometimes hard to 
procure; in case of this kind, use the medicine 

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as made of Recipe No. 1 in full ; or 10 quarts of 
it, and then add to this one pound of powdered 
Worm Seed. Mix well and use the same as 
medicine No. 1. 

Recipe No. 5 — For making a Hog Tonic to be 
used in a Self Feeder, or can be fed as one may 
wish, as the hogs take it readily. A peck is 
enough for 50 or more large (200-pound) hogs, 
or 100 small ones at a feed. Mixed with ground 
grain. See Recipe for instructions how to make. 
The cost of 50 pounds of medicine No. 1 and oth- 
er ingredients used to make 400 or more pounds 
of this Hog Tonic, will cost about $12.00 ^nd is 
a higher classed remedy than those sold by the 
bucket or barrel, that would cost, for that 
amount, $28.00 to $40.00 ; cannot any one afford 
to make it and save $20.00. It is but little 
trouble to make it, can be mixed by hand in a 
wash tub, in half bushel or more mixtures, in 
two hours or less time. 

Recipe No. 6 — For Medicine for Other Stock 
and Poultry. By omitting the drug No. 5 
(Poison) in Recipe No. 1 and using another 
drug instead. See Recipe 6 — it makes a valu- 
able medicine. For a Horse or Cow beast out 
of condition, give a tablespoonful as a dose 
tv/ice a day for a few days, then once a day. A 
good teaspoonf ul at a dose for a colt, calf or 2 
sheep. Mix with meal or oats, dampened, so 
they will eat it. A level tablespoonful for 20 
chickens. When diseased, use twice a day for 
2 days, then once a day. To keep them healthy 
use once or twice a week. Can be used for hogs 
in place of No. 1. 

Recipes Nos. 7-8 — For Medicated Salt for all 

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stock. Two Recipes in one — Two ways to 
make it — No doubt it will be noticed that I do 
not recommend numerous drugs — often claimed 
to be used in similar preparations. The rea- 
son is, that no stock will eat enough salt at a 
time to partake of enough of the drugs claimed 
to be used, to be of any benefit; therefore, I 
only advise the use of such as are of the same 
nature as salt, or when taken will be beneficial ; 
such as an appetizer, aid to digestion and pre- 
vent the food in the stomach from souring, or 
fermenting, causing gas, bloat or sickness ; bet- 
ter than salt alone. 

These Salt Preparations can be prepared 
either way as instructed and used the same as 
salt, or kept in a covered box or placed where 
stock can have free access to it at all times. 

Special Salt Tonic for Hogs. Use a Peck of 
either one of the prepared salt preparations 
made as advised, to this add two pounds, one 
quart, of medicine No. 1 and keep where the 
hogs can have free access to it at all times. 
Some use this in place of the Meal Hog Tonic; 
but the hogs will not take it as readily; the 
same as any salt preparation. 

Recipe No. 9 — For a Stock Food for other 
stock (than hogs) make the same as for hogs, 
as to Meal, 25 pounds, one-half bushel, salt two 
quarts and Soda one quart, as advised. Then 
add four (4) pounds, two good quarts, of the 
medicine made of the Recipe No. 6. Use a pint 
for 4 horses or cattle or 16 sheep at a feed. If 
they refuse to eat it, mix it with any ground 
food. Used only as an appetizer, tonic, to tone 
the system and make stock thrive better, caus- 

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ing a greater flow of milk, etc., not as a cure of 
diseases, but is equal to those sold and can be 
made for about one-third what they cost. 
Knowing that some object to the use of Cotton 
Seed meal for hogs, I will say that when pre- 
pared as I advise in making the Hog Tonic, it 
is harmless. But in making the hog tonic or 
stock food either one, different meals can be 
used. Oil meal is best, or mix cotton seed meal 
and mill feed equal parts, or use any good meals 
to form a body. 

For Stock, other than hogs, that is not doing 
well, loss of appetite, hide bound, coat rough, 
cough, unthrifty, etc., use the medicine as made 
from Recipe 6, as advised in tablespoonful doses 
twice a day for a few days, then once a day, 
then the stock food to keep the system well 
toned. 

TREATMENT FOR VERMIN— LICE 

For Hogs, For Lice or Scurvey, Petroleum Oil 
(common black oil) is not only the cheapest, but 
the best treatment to prevent or remove these 
troubles. Use the same as a Dip in a tank of 
water, or sprinkle or grease them once a month 
(does no harm) or set a post 21/2 feet deep, 
leaving it loose so it will move when the hogs 
rub against it, that is what they like, wrap it 
with a heavy rope or old sacks or cloth, bound 
with wire and keep it oiled and the hogs will 
grease themselves. To kill nits, use gasoline. 
Grease of any kind, will kill lice. 

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THINGS WORTH KNOWING AND 
REMEMBERING 

First, That no Medicine or Medical Remedies, 
can be made and sold through agents or dealers 
at a profit, unless sold at a price equal to four 
times the cost of making. Second, that the 
medicines made of Recipes No. 1 and 6 as ad- 
vised, that can be made for 8 to 10 cents a 
pound, is equal to those sold for 30 to 40 cents 
a pound. Third, that a pound of either one of 
these medicines or our prepared medicine as de- 
scribed on another page, will go as far in use as 
5 pounds of any remedy that is sold for from 
7 to 10 cents a pound. Fourth, that the Hog 
Tonic, or Stock Food made as advised, which 
can be made for about 3 cents a pound, is equal 
to or superior to those preparations that are 
sold in bulk, buckets, barrels, etc., at from 7 to 
10 cents a pound. Fifth, the way the farmer is 
deceived and induced to buy these cheap goods 
is, the agent as well as the maker of them, rep- 
resent they contain no filler but are made of 
such and such drugs, naming those that cost, 
often, from 25 cents to $5.00 a pound, thus 
making the buyer believe they are buying a 
Medicine instead of a Tonic or Condiment. 
Again they state they are ''Licensed Manufac- 
turers." This is another proof that they are 
not selling a medicine, for if they were they 
would not need any license. 

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For Hog and Poultry 

This medicine has been extensively sold for 
the past twenty-seven years as a reliable Pre- 
ventive of and Treatment for diseases peculiar 
to hogs and poultry, when used as directed. 

It can still be procured by anyone, especially 
by those who do not have the Recipe work, in 
order to try before buying the Recipes. 

This medicine is put up in 50c and $1.00 
boxes of one and two pounds respectively, ship- 
ping weight. You will find it a very strong 
preparation by reason of the absence of any 
filler or substance to make bulk, as it is made 
up entirely of only the necessary ingredients 
to make it most effective. You can readily see 
that it is also the cheapest to use owing to the 
small amount required for any given number 
under treatment. 

We have hundreds of testimonials to prove 
the worth of this medicine. 

Special prices on quantities: Three $1.00 
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shipped to any address upon receipt of price. 

This medicine can be bought of dealers. If 
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Vaccination — Treatment for Hog Cholera. 
Government Offer — For Cholera Cure 

As I am so often asked these two questions ; 
first, does "Vaccination treatment of hogs pre- 
vent disease : Cholera." Second, ''Why not sell 
your treatment to the Government," it offers a 
large sum of money for a cure for Hog Cholera. 
I will here give my views as I have learned from 
years of observation, inquiries and experience 
as to these two questions. Vaccination of hogs 
for cholera was first suggested by Dr. Koch, an 
eminent German scientist, and tried out thor- 
oughly by the German Government, then aban- 
doned and laws passed forbidding it, as it intro- 
duced and spread the disease instead of eradi- 
cating it. This was probably due to the fact 
that the ''Germ" that caused the disease, could 
not be found and cultivated. Hke the "smallpox 
germ." Later the Canadian Government tried 
it with the same results and passed laws for- 
bidding it, or ev^n shipping vaccinated (im- 
muned) hogs for breeding purposes, into the 
country. 

It was tried in this country many years ago 
and proved disastrous, and was then abandon- 
ed for some twenty years. In the past few- 
years it has been practiced extensively again 
in many parts of the United States; but to 
judge by what four-fifths of the farmers of the 
country who have tried it, or seen it tried, say 
of it, it has proven as much of a failure here as 
in other countries. 

I know from observation in localities where 
I have examined, that often with herds of hogs 

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that were vaccinated, a larger per cent of them 
died than in similar herds in the same locality 
did, that were not vaccinated, and from these 
treated hogs, the disease spread over a large 
area, causing a great loss to others. I have 
also known many herds of hogs that were ex- 
amined by those who claimed to be experts, and 
passed on as well hogs, then vaccinated, which 
in a short time later, many of the hogs died 
from the effects of the treatment. Now that is 
not uncommon; but is very common, and the 
only treatment I ever knew that would spread 
the disease or give it to the animal treated. 
Now does that show success? But vaccination 
of hogs, like any other 'Theory," if talked 
about enough, will find advocates of it and 
may finally cause some one to discover a more 
successful method than now known. Vaccina- 
tion of hogs is not claimed to be of any use ex- 
cept for "Cholera." (The same as vaccination 
for Smallpox with the human family.) I know 
from years of experience that not to exceed five 
per cient of the hogs that die of disease, die. of 
Cholera, except in those herds or districts 
where vaccination is practiced. In other words 
where disease occurs, otherwise than by vacci- 
nation, more hogs die of Pneumonia by far, 
than of Cholera, and twenty to one with swine 
fever, and other diseases, than by Cholera. 
Now any one can draw their own conclusion, as 
to whether it pays to vaccinate hogs to save 
five per cent of them (as not to exceed 5 out 
of 100 the country over would die of Cholera if 
not treated) and take the chance of introducing 
the disease for these reasons. First, it is an 

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expensive treatment to start with. Second, if 
the treatment takes effect as it should, so as 
to be effective, the hogs invariably lose flesh 
enough from the effects of the treatment, to 
equal the cost of the treatment. Third, even 
if they recover, for some time thereafter, no 
vaccinated hogs will take on the same flesh 
with the same feed as hogs that were not treat- 
ed. These are well-known facts and acknowl- 
edged by those who have tried it, or those who 
have given it close observation. 

For the benefit of those who advocate it or 
may want to try it, I will say, treat the pigs 
when 4 to 8 weeks old and before weaning 
them. It costs less then than with larger 
hogs. Then if they die, the loss is also less. 
Again, if treated young, the poisonous matter 
may be expelled from the system by the time 
they mature so they are fit for use. By in- 
quiry, for years, I learned that not one farmer 
in ten that vaccinated their hogs, ever used 
them for their own meat, unless it was those 
treated while young. Vaccination is neither 
scientific practical or common sense ; but is still 
simply an experiment. The State Serum farms 
are called "Experiment Stations," very rightly 
named. The eminent men, whose teaching I 
tried to follow, never claimed it was a success ; 
if it had been or was now, I most likely would 
follow it, for it is the best method in the way 
of treating hogs I know of, to "part the owners 
from their money" and not be held responsible. 

As to the other question, which I find 
a great many people believe, that the Fed- 
eral Government or some state offers a 

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large sum of money for a "Hog Cholera 
Cure." I will state that I never knew 
of such an offer, nor could I ever find any offi- 
cial that did know it ; though I have thoroughly 
investigated the matter. I do know from ex- 
perience though, that such an offer is not likely 
to occur unless it is some method that will give 
a great many, other than the hog owners, work 
to administer it. That is just what vaccina- 
tion does, it gives a great many men pubHc 
jobs, to both make and administer the mate- 
rial used. That is one reason why it is advo- 
cated so by a certain class of professionals and 
others. 

It may be I will be criticised for these re- 
marks, but any public teacher or writer on any 
subject may expect criticism, and as I am al- 
ready criticised by another class, those who 
make to sell, "hog remedies" of another class, 
than "serum" ; for selling my work the way 
I do, to the farmer, so a few more won't make 
any difference. Therefore, I invite all honest 
controversy. 



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CHAPTER V 
Veterinary Department for Horses, Cattle, 
Sheep and Poultry. — Introduction. — Treat- 
ment of the Various Diseases, and Injuries 
to Which They Are Subject. — Formulas for 
Medicines. — Miscellaneous Information. 



Introduction 

In discussing this subject I propose to de- 
part from the usual method adopted by other 
works of this kind and instead of discussing 
at length the different treatments of all dis- 
eases or ailments of stock, with a long article 
relative to pathology, symptoms and diagnosis 
of each case, which causes delay and tends to 
weary the reader without conferring any last- 
ing benefit, to proceed, and give in as brief a 
way as possible the treatment for some of the 
most common and frequent ailments of stock, 
first among horses, and then cattle, sheep and 
poultry. In this part of the work, as well as 
in all other parts, it is my object to be useful 
rather than offend, or appear learned, and in 
offering to the public the information herein 
given, I shall do so with candor. I do not 
claim to be the originator of all the treatments 
given, but have in many instances tested them, 
and know them to be of value. As medicines 
are only used to assist nature to effect a cure, 
those methods that will assist the most should 
be used, and my experience is that for inter- 
nal treatment, the proper medicines adminis- 
tered in small doses, is far better than a heavy 

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dose, and a proper application externally in 
most cases is far better than severe blistering 
or firing-. Kind treatment in the way of good 
nursing will do more toward restoration of a 
sick animal to health, than so much strong 
medicine. 

Medicines, powerful in their nature, for 
good or evil, are often administered in large 
doses, when little or none is necessary, and 
such treatment is often prescribed by those 
not knowing what ails the animal, or without 
any knowledge whatever of the effect that 
such a mixture may produce upon the system, 
and strongly urge that it be administered, 
simply because somebody else had used the 
like, and the animal did not die. This is all 
wrong. The first business, when called to a 
patient is to ascertain the cause of trouble. 
Think for yourself, uninfluenced by the opin- 
ion of so many others, and give the patient 
prompt attention as is thought best, when 
such cases occur that are not properly under- 
stood and cannot be properly treated by the 
inexperienced, promptly employ some practi- 
cal veterinary to attend to it. 

How To Observe Diseases 

The question is often asked: How to tell 
what the disease is that this or that animal 
is affected with, as it cannot speak. To this 
question I might repeat nature has put one 
set of weights and measures and these only 
should be used. Thus, if a horse or other ani- 
mal has corns or an injured foot, they will be 
as sure to go lame as they would with an ordi- 

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nary sprain. The uneasy eye, the anxious ex- 
pression, and the sharp peculiar look, tell its 
tale of suffering, and the description is so plain 
and true, that every one should learn to in- 
terpret them. Often the suffering can be told 
by the pulse, which is felt on the inner angle 
of the lower jaw, as being the most convenient 
place, the state of the pulse tells the condi- 
tion of the heart, whether the disease is of an 
exhalted or depressed character or whether 
sickness is at all present. The pulse is more 
frequent in the young than in old animals. In 
the full grown and healthy horse, it beats from 
32 to 38 in a minute; in the ox or cow, 35 to 
42; in the sheep, 70 to 75. For inflammation 
and fever the frequency of the pulse is in- 
creased, in the debility and depression it is 
slower, but sometimes quicker than natural. 
As the pulse varies so much it takes some 
practice to determine and understand it. A 
healthy horse breathes once to three of the 
pulse beats. When the breathing is not nat- 
ural it indicates disease, but both the pulse and 
breathing can be quickened by exposure to 
heat, or the hot sun. Hence the advantage of 
placing animals in a cool and airy place when 
unwell, as it assists nature to cast off the dis- 
ease. 

TREATMENT OF DISEASED AND 
INJURED HORSES 

Colic. — Spasmodic and Flatulent. — Colic 
with horses is not an uncommon thing, and 
most every person who is in the habit of handl- 
ing them, is acquainted with the cause and 

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symptoms of this disease. Cause — a change 
or excessive amount of food or water, or some 
similar unknown cause, which is the result of 
acute indigestion. Symptoms — rapid breath- 
ing, uneasiness, pawing, lying down and roll- 
ing. With spasmodic colic the pain is more 
severe, and death occurs quicker than with 
flatulent colic. 

Treatment — Take tincture of aconite and 
Belladonna, equal parts mixed — ^bottled — Dose 
for a horse, give thirty (30) drops, well back 
on the tongue. Colt, twenty (20) drops. If 
not relieved repeat the dose in twenty (20) 
minutes, and it may be necessary in a severe 
case, to give the third dose; but I never had 
that to do but twice. An ounce of each drug, 
a small bottle of it, should be procured and 
kept on hand, carefully marked as to what it's 
for. Another good remedy, is laudanum and 
ether, equal parts. Dose for a horse, sixty 
(60) drops — a teaspoonful — given the same 
way. Never resort to heavy drenching or vio- 
lent exercise; avoid too much feed or cold 
water. If cold weather, blanket well, and it 
will be found beneficial to give a few doses of 
the medicine of Recipe No. 6 to tone the stom- 
ach and system while recovering. 

Botts — Symptoms and treatment the same 
as Colic, except to give as a drench, a heaping 
tablespoonful of the medicine No. 6, dissolved 
in a half -pint of hot water, to which add one- 
half tablespoonful of turpentine, providing re- 
lief is not obtained after giving the second 
dose of colic medicine; this gives relief quick- 

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ly by toning the stomach and will cause the 
bowels to move, both very necessary. Other- 
wise, if one is afraid to treat the animal, call 
a veterinary at once. 

Inflamitiation of the Lungs 

Pneumonia. — This is a common and fatal 
disease with horses, and is caused very often 
by abuse and neglect which causes them to 
take cold. By riding or driving a horse until 
very warm and then stopping them in a cold 
draft to cool out, or by leaving a window open 
in the stable during a cold and sudden change, 
are some of the most fruitful causes. 

Symptoms: The first attack is rather slow, 
the breathing is more or less laborious, and 
the patient dejected and down spirited. The 
coat is rough, the body and legs cold, and bow- 
els constipated, the patient stands with head 
and ears drooped and legs apart as if to pre- 
vent falling. On examination, by placing the 
ear against the side of the patient, over the 
lungs, a grating or tearing noise can be heard 
as the patient breathes, then prompt treat- 
ment must be given. 

Treatment: First make the patient as com- 
fortable as possible in a good warm box-stall, 
well bedded, if in winter, well blanketed, and 
kept dry and clean if in the summer. Then 
give on tongue 15 drops of tincture of aconite, 
and in half an hour the following medicine as 
a dench ; Af racan ginger, two tablespoonf uls, 
capsicum one-half teaspoonful, calomel 12 to 
15 grains, to tone the stomach and move the 
bowels. Then repeat the aconite every hour 

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in 15 drop doses, until 4 or 5 doses are given. 
Feed soft food, oats, with oil meal or mill feed 
mixed and two doses a day of the medicine 
No. 6 with it, and keep the patient quiet. A 
mustard solution, well applied to throat, chest 
and over the lungs and covered iwth a blanket, 
is very beneficial. To produce perspiration use 
Tincture aconite, i n fifteen to twenty drop 
doses every twenty minutes. Clothe warm. 
This is one of the cases, where a practical doc- 
tor may be necessary. 

Note. — Every farmer should keep a bottle 
of aconite in the house for immediate use, for 
you will see by this work that it is very val- 
uable, not only for diseases with horses, but 
for milk fever with swine, cattle and sheep, 
and hoven when used as prescribed. 

Dysentery or Scours 

This is something that occurs frequently 
with horses, and especially with road horses 
or colts. 

Treatment: If where no other remedy can 
be procured, take wheat flour, one pint to a 
gallon of water and give it as a drink, where 
they will not drink use one-half pint of flour 
to a quart of water, to which add one fresh 
egg, and use as a drench. If it can be pro- 
cured, to this add one tablespoonful of ginger, 
and from fifteen to thirty drops of laudanum 
or a gill of whisky. Give every two hours un- 
til relieved, give light food, such as oats, bran, 
and sweet hay. 

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Profuse Staleing — Kidney Trouble 

This is something horses are troubled with 
often. 

Treatment — Use the medicine of Recipe 6 
twice a day and give one dose, one ounce, two 
tablespoonf uls of Tincture of Bucha to a horse, 
and one-half this amount to a colt, which will 
cause staleing. 

Foul sheath. — All horses are troubled more 
or less with foul sheaths, and they should be 
looked after and cleaned by washing in warm 
water and castile soap, then oiled with fresh 
lard or sweet oil. Either of these troubles can 
be told by the difficult staleing. 

Colds and Distemper 

These two diseases are of frequent occur- 
rence with horses, but neither one at all dan- 
gerous if promptly attended to. Colds occur 
more with matured horses than colts, and are 
caused by exposure and neglect. Distemper is 
a colt disease, but frequently old horses are 
troubled with it. 

Treatment: For colds — give the medicine, 
recipe 6, in soft food twice a day and in bad 
cases smoke, by putting pine tar or woolen 
rags in an old shoe, with the toe cut off. Burn 
and hold under the nose, thus smoking the 
patient well, which will cause a free discharge. 
For distemper, give the same treatment, smok- 
ing every day until a free discharge from the 
nose is started, then occasionally to keep them 
running free, if they gather under jaw open 
with knife, as soon as ripe, which is as soon 

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as the lump becomes soft. To hasten the gath- 
ering, apply under the jaw or throat a poul- 
tice of hops and bran. If this simple treat- 
ment is effectually carried out, using good san- 
itary means to keep the patient warm and dry 
in the winter, and feeding soft food with the 
condition powder, and in summer allowing free 
access to grass. The chances are that you 
will not lose one horse in a lifetime with these 
diseases. 

Epizootic — Pinkeye 

This is a contagious disease. That occurs 
once in a while in an epidemic form through 
the country, and kills or injures a great many 
horses. 

Symptoms: The attack is usually sudden 
and the horse soon drops its head and ears, 
and stands with back arched and braced legs 
as if to bring rehef. These symptoms are al- 
ways accompanied by a hoarse dry cough, rap- 
id breathing, scanty, high colored urine, and 
hard muscus covered dung. 

Treatment: Give one-fourth pint of medi- 
cine No. 6 and 15 grains of calomel to move 
the bowels. Then use the medicine No. 6 in 
tablespoonful doses twice a day in soft wet 
food, placed low down so as to cause the horse 
to keep its head down while feeding, or turn 
out on grass and give on tongue twice a day 
aconite in 10 drop doses. This disease being 
very contagious it is well to keep the effected 
animal away from others and disenfect all 
stables. 

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Fistula and PoU-Evil 

These terrible diseases of the horse are of 
frequent occurrence, and very annoying and 
hard to cure, but the treatment given here 
can be relied upon, or at least it has been suc- 
cessfully used in many instances, and highly 
recommended. 

Fistula appears at the top of the shoulder 
blade, and Poll-evil occurs on top of the neck 
just behind the ears. Both these diseases are 
caused by a bruise. 

Treatment — When they first make their 
appearance they can be observed by a swelling 
and soreness, and up to the time that matter 
begins to form, the corrosive liniment will be 
found very effectual to drive it away. (See 
prescription, how to make it.) This is a pow- 
erful medicine, and in using it the horse must 
be fastened so he cannot rub or bite the af- 
flicted parts, as it will burn for a minute or 
two. Apply every morning with a small mop, 
(not the finger) for some three days, and then 
take old lard, or wagon grease, and grease the 
part well and let go three days, and repeat the 
treatment over again three times. If this fails 
to check it, the treatment will have to be 
changed and one used to cause heavy sup- 
puration. For this purpose use May apple lin- 
iment. (See recipe.) A thin coating should 
be spread over the aflflicted part every morn- 
ing and carefully washed at night with castile 
soap and hot water and then greased. This 
treatment should be continued until matter 
forms, and as the pus beofins to ooze out, in- 
crease the amount of liniment and the length 

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of time between dressing up to two days, but 
not longer, always washing well before dress- 
ing. Aftei'*, three weeks treatment, cleanse 
the wound thoroughly, and apply internally 
until healed, the Dexter Liniment, see recipe. 

Ring-Bone and Curbs 

Ring-bone is a bony substance or growth 
that appears just at the top of the hoof, and 
extends clear around. It is caused by a strain 
and if neglected makes the horse very lame, 
and soon becomes hard and hard to remove. 

A curb is a long bony substance on the back 
part of the leg just below the hock, and the 
same may be said of it as of ring-bone. 

Treatment: For ring-bone the same as for 
curb. 

For a curb if the afflicted part is feverish, 
first reduce the fever by applying the cooling 
lotion, (see receipe,) then use the corrosive 
liniment, bathe once a day, then wash with 
soap and hot water — home made soft soap is 
best — continue treatment for a week, then 
leave go a week, if necessary repeat. This 
same treatment will remove any splint or cal- 
lous. 

Scratches and Grease Heel 

These are two of the dreaded diseases of the 
American horsemen, although similar in their 
characteristics, grease heel is the most obsti- 
nate to cure. They appear on the back part of 
the leg, extending from the heel of the foot to 
the fetlock, and in extreme cases often reaches 
up to the knee or hock. The scratches begin 

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with a scabby covering of the skin, coming 
in patches and continuing to spread until the 
leg is one mass of sores. 

Grease heel commences by the flesh burst- 
ing open, .and an offensive matter oozing out. 
If neglected it spreads rapidly and becomes 
very sore. 

Treatment: Wash clean with soft soap and 
dampen afflicted parts with Dexter liniment 
for three days and then grease with lard and 
sulphur. This will cure any case if kept out 
of the water and mud. Dry snow makes no 
difference, it is good to help to reduce the 
fever. In all cases turn on grass or feed soft 
food, and the medicine No. 6, to cleanse the 
blood and system. 

Another good treatment is to take one- 
fourth pound of blue vitrol and dissolve it in 
a guart of ammonia, or cider vinegar and use 
as a wash, apply daily once or twice. 

Thrush 

This is a disease of the foot caused by ne- 
glect, damp filthy stables, and also by a bruise 
or injury of any kind. It often becomes very 
bad before the inattentive owner or groom no- 
tices it, which is observed by a very offensive 
smell. 

Treatment: Clean out and pare away all 
the diseased part of the foot, then use the 
Dexter liniment. (See Recipe.) Apply twice 
a day for two or three days and keep the foot 
dry and clean while under treatment. This 
will soon effect a cure, or clean out and apply 
salt and wet blue clay as a stuffing. 

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Dressing to Soften Feet 

Sliced onions, one pint ; oil meal, one quart ; 
charcoal, one half pint; boiling water, suffi- 
cient to form a stuffing; stuff the feet and 
fasten in with a cloth poke if you have no 
boots. This is excellent for feet either sound 
or unsound, is valuable in case of founder. 

Injured Feet 

In case an animal injures its foot with a nail 
or snag of any kind, examine the foot care- 
fully and if possible find and remove the arti- 
cle, then clean out the foot well and apply 
peroxide to remove the poison, then apply tur- 
pentine to the wound, cover with a tarred rag, 
and be sure to cleanse and dress every day so 
as to keep the wound open, after two or three 
days use the Dexter liniment in place of the 
turpentine. In case of graveled foot, keep the 
foot encased in a poultice made of oil-meal, 
bran and warm water in a sack until open, 
then cleanse with soap and water or peroxide 
and apply the Dexter liniment until healed. 

Founder — Corns 

For Founder. — Bleed freely in the small 
warts under the posturn joints. Give 10 drops 
of aconite twice a day for three days and use 
the medicine No. 6 in oats and bran mashes 
in absence of grass, and apply the onion dress- 
ing to feet for a few days. 

For corns, pare out the foot well and apply 
the onion dressing or foot oil until all soreness 
is removed. 

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Saddle or Harness Galls, or Boils 

These are so frequent and annoying to both 
horse and man that the proper treatment for 
them is of value. 

Where the horse can be allowed to go idle 
it should be done until well, but where this 
can not be done, then other means must be 
resorted to. First, the saddle or harness 
should be so padded as to take the bearing off 
the afflicted parts. Then wash clean with 
warm salt water, and bathe with Dexter lini- 
ment and meat f ryings, equal parts, which 
will heal any common gall, or paint over with 
white lead. Where a large collar boil has 
formed, cut it open and cleanse it out with 
warm water, then bathe it internally and ex- 
ternally with the Dexter liniment, by the use 
of a feather. 

A cheap application for bruises and galls, 
and to reduce external inflammation is a de- 
coction of smart weed, two parts, and strong 
vinegar, one part. Make hot, pour over bran, 
and apply as a plaster, as hot as the horse 
will bear. 

Valuable Eye Remedies 

How to make and use. — Take tincture of 
arnica, one ounce, laudanum one-half ounce, 
sugar of lead one-half ounce, bathe several 
times a day will remove inflammation or 
soreness caused by a blow or otherwise, or 
where the inflammation has caused the haw 
to appear, what a great many call hooks, and 
what ignorant pretenders cut out, claiming it 

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is a disease. To remove slight inflammation 
take cold salt water and bathe the eye, or bell- 
adonna, one part, water three parts, make 
fresh each time, will soon remove it. To re- 
move dirt, etc., from the eye, insert flax seed. 
To remove film, finely powdered burnt alum, 
or equal parts honey and hen's oil, applied with 
a feather, is excellent. 

Worms With Horses 

Treatment: Use medicine of receipe 6, to 
this add one pound of powdered worm seed, 
and use in tablespoonful doses, once or twice 
a day. Note, the reason I recommend this 
medicine of Receipe No. 6 in all cases where 
a medicine of this nature is required, is, I 
know it is as valuable as any other when 
made as prescribed or changed as needed, to 
be more effective in certain cases as advised. 
Then those having this work no doubt will most 
always keep it on hand, and especially when 
they make it in quantities of 25 pounds or more* 
as it is cheap to make — 10 cents per pound. 
Ten quarts of the mixed medicine equals the 
recipe as given. 

Abortion with Cows. 

Abortion, or premature birth among cattle, 
is considered a contagious disease, and every 
precaution should be taken to prevent its 
spreading. The calf is invariably lost, and not 
unfrequently the cow. If the cow survives, 
she is almost sure to drop her next calf at 
about the same period. Some have great faith 
in preventing this, and contagious diseases 

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with horses and cattle by keeping a goat 
about the barn. I have more faith in medical 
treatment. A month before the expected re- 
turn time, and in case one cow loses her calf, 
it is well to give other ones that are heavy 
with calf some attention, for where this oc- 
curs, very often it is on account of some local 
trouble and calls for a change of food and 
care. The affected animal should be removed 
from the rest of the herd as soon as she slinks 
her calf, as well as should be all evidences of 
the trouble. Then thoroughly clean up the 
stable and use lime freely on floors, and white- 
wash all walls. Then use once a day at least, 
if not twice, for a few days, the following 
treatment. Take a gallon of the medicine as 
made from Recipe No. 6. The prescription 
as given makes that amount or more. To this 
add one-half pound of powdered asafetida, mix 
well and use in tablespoonful doses for a week. 
Then twice a week for a month. Those that 
show sickness or fever, give one dose of ten 
drops of tincture of aconite daily for two or 
three days. 

Bloat Hoven with Cattle. 

For Bloat Hoven with cattle, take a half 
pint of powdered charcoal; one tablespoonful 
of turpentine; and if at hand, 10 drops of 
aconite ; stir in a quart of water and give as a 
drench. Hold the mouth open with the hand 
and the wind will escape. 

Milk Fever or Garget. 

Garget (caked bag) is one of the most com- 

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mon diseases among- cattle, often occurring in 
the spring, just after calving, or it may be in- 
duced by high feeding at other times, or even 
when running on good grass later in the sum- 
mer, and it may be induced by efforts to dry 
off a cow too rapidly. Symptoms and treat- 
ment: — The udder is hot, swollen and very 
tender. First one teat will become hard, then 
the others. The best remedy is to bathe the 
udder frequently with hot vinegar and salt, 
rubbing it gently with the hand, then make a 
fire with corn cobs or chips in an iron pot, 
take a large cloth, and put one end around the 
udder, letting the other end hang down 
around the pot, thus smoking it well. One or 
two applications will give relief. Give 
one pint of Epsom salts in a quart 
of water as a drench to move the bowels. Then 
give the usual dose of medicine No. 6 twice a 
day for two days, and one or two doses of 
aconite, 10 drops. Keep the milk well drawn. 

Foot and Mouth Diseases. 

Frequently cattle are troubled with sore 
feet and mouths, and become very lame or 
weak, and, if allowed to go uncared for, soon 
depreciate in flesh or milk, and in that way 
prove a loss to their owner. With sore feet, 
the animal is generally attacked in the hind 
feet first, and they become very sore between 
the hoofs, and can be observed by the animal 
shaking the feet and refusing to stand upon 
them. 

Treatment: Clean and keep dry and apply 
a strong solution of blue vitriol and tobacco, 

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very hot, for a few days, the same as for foot 
rot in sheep. Or run hot pine tar into the 
sore, repeat every day until well. 

Treatment for sore mouth, the same as for 
sore mouth with horses. 

There is a foot and mouth disease that is 
considered to be contag"ious. Therefore, if any 
one has cattle thus afflicted, and the treat- 
ment here given tried and not successful, it 
would be well to call a practical doctor and 
have them examined. 

Scours with Calves or Lambs. 

To check this trouble, take sweet milk, put 
it over the fire long enough to come to a boil- 
ing heat. Let it cool ; to one gallon of milk, 
add a cup of wheat flour, one teaspoonful of 
ginger and one fresh egg, and give as a feed 
for a calf. 

Grub in Sheep. 

An intelligent shepherd gives the treat- 
ment for this trouble, which he guarantees to 
work, if the sheep are not too far gone: Pour 
a few drops of turpentine in their ear will 
remove the grubs, and to prevent this trouble, 
every year about the first week in June, tar 
their noses well, and give them a spoonful in- 
ternally. Repeat the operation in July, August 
and September. If this advice is followed out 
there will be no trouble with grubs. 

The Maggot. 

The maggot, so called, is a formidable en- 
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are deposited by the common blue fly. When 
sheep are wounded by accident, or are allowed 
to become filthy when troubled with diarrhoea, 
the eggs or larva are deposited in vast num- 
bers. The maggots soon become active, and 
spread from their quarters and attack the 
skin, which they irritate and cause to secrete 
a serious fluid. In time the skin is pierced, 
and the flesh suppurates and wastes away, be- 
ing devoured by the multitude of maggots 
which crawl upon it. In wet seasons the mis- 
chief is greatly increased. To prevent them 
it is necessary to carefully remove the wool 
from about the tail so that filth may not 
gather to watch for any accidental wound; 
and in warm, wet weather, for any dirty tags 
of wool upon which the flies may deposit eggs. 
In case any maggots are found, there is no 
better application than common crude petro- 
leum and turpentine, both of which are repul- 
sive and fatal to fly and maggot. A sheep 
that is 'struck" with maggots will remain 
separate from the flock, and may be lost 
sight of unless the flock is counted and the 
straggler found. Weaning time, when the 
ewes may suflfer from caked udder, is an espe- 
cially critical period, and then extra watchful- 
ness is called for, and the udder should be 
bathed with lard and camphor. 

Hide-Bound. 

With a poor and dilapidated, or hide-bound 
cow brute, treat same as for a horse in the 
same condition. Feed well with rich, soft food, 
and use twice a day the medicine of Recipe 

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No. 6 to cleanse the blood, tone the system 
and aid the digestive organs. Use for a few 
days, and then the stock food regular. If in 
the winter or early spring, a good, warm, dry 
stable will be found to be very beneficial. 

Urinary Trouble 

Cows are just as much subject to urinary 
trouble as horses, and can be observed the 
same way, by their repeated efforts to stale, 
but unable to do so. To treat this give as a 
drench sweet spirits of niter, one ounce ; water 
one pint, and then use the condition powder in 
soft feed or the stock food, or stock feed. 

Egat, Indigestion or Murrain. 

These diseases are of frequent occurrence 
with cattle, and often prove fatal, either by 
permanent injury or death. In the corn- 
growing districts they occur more frequently 
in the fall of the year than any other season, 
and the probability is that nineteen out of 
every twenty of such cattle so found dead 
died from one or both of two prominent 
causes. One of these is the gorging of the ani- 
mals' stomachs with an enormous quantity of 
highly stimulating food, much of it dif^cult of 
digestion, directly after their having been kept 
on meager, frost-bitten pasturage, which was 
to tide them over from grass to such time as 
the corn would be out of the field. Such a sud- 
den and violent change could scarcely do other- 
wise than demoralize the entire digestive sys- 
tem ; and death, equally sudden, violent and un- 
locked for, ensues. The other prominent cause 

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is the eating" largely of dry frosted grass, or 
the woody, fibrous cornstalks and shucks — 
more especially the latter, in eating shredded 
fowder as now used, and insufficient water is 
taken to soften and float it up as it must be 
before the processes of digestion can be com- 
pleted; the mass comes to a stand-still, owing 
to impaction, forms a sort of blockade in the 
manifolds or third stomach, inflammation sets 
in and the animal becomes very sick and often 
past help. 

Treatment: As soon as the trouble is ob- 
served, which can be told by the animal sepa- 
rating from the herd, becoming restless, lying 
down, then arising and moving slowly about, 
standing with a staring look, suddenly starting 
forward, and in doing so, often fall upon their 
knees. Something must be done immediately 
if you wish to save the animal. The first re- 
sult to be obtained is a physic. This can be 
obtained by giving lard, one quart ; raw oil, one 
pint; or brewers yeast, one quart, or epsom 
salts, one pint, dissolved in a quart of warm 
water. Given as a drench, one pint of raw lin- 
seed oil I consider by far the best. If the ani- 
mal seems to be suffering with much pain, give 
the usual dose of aconite, 10 to 15 drops at a 
time, and repeat in 30 minutes. In case there 
is any suspicion that others are affected, give 
the medicine No. 6 in soft, wet food, twice a 
day for a day or two to prevent any further 
trouble, or change their food. As this trouble 
occurs with horses and sheep as well as cattle, 
the same treatment can be used by regulating 
the dose given. For sheep, use a small dose of 

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the drench, and only five drops of the aconite. 
This treatment used in time will save many an 
animal. 

RECIPES FOR VARIOUS USES. 
Cooling Lotions. 

Chloroform, alcohol and Golard's Extract, 
each two ounces; mix, take one-third the 
amount in a quart of rain water, bathe twice 
or three times a day. This is very cooling, and 
is used by a great many horsemen in rubbing 
out race horses, or on receiving a bruise to pre- 
vent callouses. Another one is Oil of Spike, 
Oil of Camphor. Oil of British, each one ounce ; 
Liquid of ammonia, one pint. Another good 
and cheap one is, copperas, one-half pound; 
rain water, one gallon; use twice a day. Will 
remove fever and soften the skin. 

Valuable Eye Washes. 

Take three fresh hen eggs and break them in 
a quart of cold rain water. Stir until a thor- 
ough mixture is effected. Boil over a slow fire, 
stirring occasionally, adding one-half ounce of 
sulphate of zinc (white vitriol) to the mixture, 
remove and the curd will settle to the bottom, 
and the liquid rests on top. This liquid 
strained, makes a valuable eye wash for man 
or beast. The curd applied to the eye will 
draw the inflammation out. The liquid, if 
strained free of any sediment and bottled, will 
last a long time. The curd can be applied to 
the eye of the horse by making a hood so it fits 
tight over the eyes, or one eye. 

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Or take tincture of arnica, one ounce ; lauda- 
num, one-half ounce; sugar of lead, one-half 
ounce, mix and bathe the eye twice or three 
times a day, will remove inflammation or sore- 
ness. 

To Remove Callouses. 

Strong hickory ash soft soap applied once 
a day, washing with hot water before each ap- 
plication, will remove most any callous or 
splint. For a hard and long standing case, use 
the soap and corrosive liniment. See corrosive 
recipe. A good general liniment to remove 
callous is. Dexter liniment ; apply once or twice 
a day, and wash off with hot water and soap. 
The hotter the water the better, it softens the 
skin and opens the pores. 

Corrosive Liniment. 

Take one-half pint of turpentine, one ounce 
of finely pulverized corrosive suplimate, and 
one ounce of gum camphor. Let it stand for a 
week, shaking every day, when it wijl be 
ready for use. Always shake well when using, 
pour in an earthen vessel and apply with a 
swab, never the finger, and keep it out of the 
way of children, and when using, tie the horse 
so it cannot reach the part when applied. Used 
to remove all callouses, curbs, etc. 

May Apple Liniment. 

Make a strong syrup of May apple roots, 
while boiling add one-fourth as much strong 
lard as syrup, keep stirring all the time to pre- 
vent burning, cool and put away for use. This 

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is used for poll evil or fistula in their second 
stage; when matter has formed, it will draw 
it to the surface. May apple roots can be 
bought of any druggist. 

Foot Oil. 

Oil of cedar, oil of hemlock and sweet oil, 
each 2 ounces ; American oil, one gill ; Neats- 
foot oil, one gill; Barbadoes tar, two gills; or- 
ganum oil, one ounce; apply to frog and foot; 
will promote health and growth. 

Dexter Liniment. 

Oil of spike, oil of camphor, oil of stone, oil 
of British, oil of America, oil of opodeldoc, 
each an ounce; turpentine, one pint. This is 
the best general liniment I ever knew, either 
for man or beast, as it is invaluable for healing 
galls or sores, either fresh or chronic cases, re- 
moving collar boils, callouses, etc., with 
horses, and all cuts or bruises, chapped hands, 
burns, etc., with the human family. Will also 
remove the soreness of corns or chilblains, and 
a great benefit with rheumatism or weak back. 
In using it for chapped hands, burns or fresh 
cuts, take liniment one part, sweet cream, 
fresh butter or vaseline, three parts. Or to 
make for family use, use alcohol in place of 
turpentine. 

Canker-Sore Mouth Wash. 

Treatment: Take sugar of lead, bole am- 
moniac and burnt alum, each one pound, four 
ounces; good cider vinegar, three quarts; mix 

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and use as a wash twice a day. Good for any 
sore-mouthed animal. 

Healing Powder. 

Burned alum , one-half ounce; powdered 
chalk, one ounce ; pulverized gum camphor, one 
drachm ; mix. Sprinkle on sore ; will heal 
quickly, and is good to remove proud flesh. 

Sweating Liniment. 

Take two gallons of mullen leaves and one 
gallon of water. Boil until half gallon of juice 
is obtained ; strain ; to this add one quart of 
cider vinegar, one-half pint salt, two ounces oil 
organum ; apply hot. This is one of the best 
preparations for injured whirl-bone, or deep- 
seated strains I ever tried; also for caked bag 
(garget) with cattle or sheep. When applied, 
dry by smoking. See garget treatment. The 
mullen, liquid vinegar and salt alone is good 
for swelled or inflamed udders. 

Louse Killer for Fowls. 

This powder was formulated by R. C. Lowry 
of the New York State College of Agriculture, 
Columbia University, and is said to be exceed- 
ingly effective. Most anyone can make it. It 
is prepared as follows: Take one-fourth pint 
of crude carbolic acid, mix with three-fourths 
pint of gasoline and thoroughly stir into two 
and one-half pounds of plaster of paris; force 
through a sieve to break the lumps. It is then 
allowed to dry in the air, and when dry put in 
a tight tin can or bottle, and it will remain ef- 

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fective indefinitely. To apply this powder, use 
a tin shaker or make holes in the top of a tin 
can and use as a shaker. Hold the fowl by the 
legs, head down; ruffle the feathers down so 
the powder can be worked into the skin. It is 
especially good for setting hens. Repeat every 
ten days to kill the lice that may hatch. It is 
not often necessary to dust all the fowls of a 
flock. The best way to keep them free from lice 
is to spray the perches and supply them with 
a dust ash wallow. A sheep penned in the 
house of nights will carry the lice away, as 
they get in the wool and die or can't get out; 
the same with fleas. This powder can be used 
on lousy horses or cattle. Any kind of grease, 
lard or black oil, butter or sweet cream is good 
to use with fowls, especially small chicks. 
Grease them around the head, neck and under 
the wings. Dust the hen or brooder with the 
powder and spray the perches with the liquid — 
lime and sulphur wash. 

A Lime and Sulphur Spray. 

Take ten pounds of stone lime, five pounds of 
sulphur and one and one-quarter pounds of 
caustic soda for fifteen gallons of water. Slake 
the lime by pouring water over it. Make a thin 
paste of the sulphur and pour it in with the 
lime while slaking. Keep stirring. Dissolve 
the caustic soda in water, pour it into the lime 
water and keep stirring. It makes a wash 
that will burn the fingers and eyes, but kill all 
lice and insects when applied to wood or trees. 
Therefore very useful, not only to kill lice or 

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insects, but as a disinfectant for stables, hog 

and poultry houses. 

Diseased Poultry — Symptoms and Treatment. 

All kinds of poultry, especially chickens and 
turkeys, are subject to diseases similar to those 
of the hog (known as cholera and roup) , and is 
as infectious or contagious with them as with 
hogs. This view of the matter suggests the 
propriety of adopting such measures with the 
first cases in a locality as shall prevent the 
spreading of the disease in any way. The dis- 
eased, in any case, should be kept apart from 
the healthy ones until they have well recov- 
ered, and upon the appearance of the disease 
should be cared for immediately. Fowls show 
signs of sickness immediately after they are 
attacked. Perfect health with poultry is best 
shown by the bright scarlet color of the comb, 
their cheerfulness and elasticity of step. As 
soon as the fowl feels unwell the comb changes 
color, at first pale and then purple, and they 
refuse to eat or leave the roost, often remain- 
ing there until death. 

Cholera or Roup with Fowls. 

Symptom of Cholera. — The discharges at 
first are yellowish green, or like sulphur and 
water, becoming thinner, greener and more 
frothy as the disease goes on. The breathing 
becomes heavy and fast, the crop fills with 
mucus and wind, the food is not digested, the 
eyes close, and in a few hours the fowl dies. 
There is weakness, sometimes extreme. 

Treatment: Separate the sick from the well 
ones, and thoroughly renovate, as far as practi- 

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cable, the roosting places, by removing all the 
manue and hauling it away, and whitewash- 
ing the roosts and houses, and sprinkle the 
floor with water and carbolic acid or lime, and 
use the medicine as made of Recipe No. 6, a 
tablespoonf ul, in soft feed for twenty chickens ; 
feed twice a day for three or four feeds. Those 
too sick to eat, catch and feed them. 

Roup. — During damp weather the roup 
sometimes makes its appearance, even when 
the fowls have received the best care that can 
be bestowed. There are many forms of roup, 
and it becomes contagious in flocks when al- 
lowed its way unchecked ; but the mild form 
is usually a cold, the symptoms being a stop- 
page of the nostrils, which gives the well- 
known hoarse breathing, with the mouth 
opened. It sometimes appears also as a dis- 
ease of the throat, and other times the eyes 
and head are affected, in all cases attended by 
general debility, loss of appetite and depressed 
spirits. Treatment the same as for cholera, 
and grease their heads and throats with coal 
oil and lard. 

Rough Food for Fowls or Stock. 

In absence of grass or other green food, all 
live stock, and poultry as well, should be sup- 
plied with a substitute food to take its place. 
For this purpose, good clover or alfalfa chaff, 
or hay run through a feed cutter. Then put in 
a barrel or tight box and pour over it sufficient 
boiling water to wet it good ; ; cover up tight 
and warm to hold the heat. Let stand some 

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hours and it will be found a splendid rough 
food for all stock or poultry. This can be im- 
proved by adding some mill feed or meals 
with it, but will be relished and eaten without. 

In Conclusion 

I will say if this work meets the approval of 
those who have tried it, I would request that 
they introduce it to their friends or neighbors, 
as by that means it will be more universally 
known and used. Active agents wanted in 
every county in any state. Liberal terms of- 
fered. 

Address : J. B. SHOOK, Columbus, 0. 



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REFERENCES. 

Jamestown, O., Aug. 21, 1884 
To Whom It May Concern: This is to certify that 
in addition to my law practice, I ran a large farm and 
have had considerable experience and observation in 
the use of Shook's Hog Cholera Remedy, and can say 
that if the directions are followed, it will do just what 
is claimed for it, and that Mr. J. B. Shook is a gentle- 
man in every sense of the term. 

W. A. Paxson, Attorney-at-Law. 



Wichita, Kans., April 22, 1885. 
Mr. J. B. Shook. Sir: Your medicine for swine 
received and given a trial with sick hogs. I am much 
pleased with it as it seems all you claim for it. The 
following June, Mr. Johnson writes: Your medicine as 
a preventive is a success. 

Alfred Johnson. 



Flint, Mich., Feb. 6, 1883. 
Mr. J. B. Shook. Dear Sir : Having thoroughly 
tested the medicines I bought of you, both for diseased 
hogs as well as the preventive, I will say I am well 
satisfied. J. W. Foster. 



Plain City, O., Aug. 20, 1884. 
Mr. James Mitchell, in paying me for over 100 hogs 
I treated for him, and Mr. John Dodge, for 40 or more, 
said: We are well satisfied with your work, and that 
you understand your business. 

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Ashmore, 111., June 16, 1884. 
Mr. J. B. Shook. Sir: Enclosed find $1.00 for which 
send me the worth of in your hog medicine. The other 
I got proved very reliable. Geo. W. Olmstead. 



Piper City, 111., Dec. 4, 1884. 
To Whom It May Concern: This is to certify that 
J. B. Shook of Ohio came here to treat our 1000 head of 
diseased hogs. He was highly recommended to me by 
responsible parties of Ohio, and his work proved so 
satisfactory that any guarantee he makes here I will be 
responsible for. John A. Mentelius. 



Venice, Butler Co., O., Oct. 3, 1884. 
To Whom It May Concern : This is certify that J. 
B. Shook has been making his headquarters here for 
some three weeks for the purpose of treating diseased 
hogs. He has been able to make his word good in doing 
all he claimed he could do, and myself and the people 
hereabout are well satisfied that he understands his 
business. Frank Och. 



Sater, O., Sept. 24, 1884. 
Mr. J. B. Shook. Sir: My hogs are now all right. 
Out of the 150 I treated under your directions, I only 
lost two small pigs. Please call and see me before you 
leave Venice. H. W. Scott. 



Isaac Reigel Cedar Hill, O., who feeds from $10,000 
to $20,000 worth of hogs a year, says: Mr. Shook: I 
have used your hog treatment for the past 28 years and 
have no use for any other. 

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Lexington, III., Feb. 10, 1895. 
Mr. J. B. Shook. Dear Sir: A test of the hog med- 
line I bought of you, by myself and the owners, on 
ver 5000 head of diseased hogs here in Moultry County 
aved better than 93 per cent, of them, and my sales of 
tie medicine now will be good, as people are coming 
long ways after it. 



Meyers Bros., Sullivan, 111., wrote in 1898: Mr. J. 
\. Shook. Dear Sir: Send us at once by express the 
mount of your Stock Remedy for the within enclosed 
raft, as we are feeding quite a lot of hogs and do not 
i^ant to be out of it, having learned from years of its 
ise, its value, being reliable in all cases either as a cure 
r preventive. 



Testimonials from hundreds of other first-class farm- 
rs or feeders who have bought this swine treatment 
ould be furnished if necessary. 



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INDEX. 

Page 

Remarks— Why I sell this work 5 

Preface— Not Theories, But Facts 6 

How the work is sold 7-8 

CHAPTER I. 

Investigation of Swine Diseases, by Government 

Experts, Drs. Detmen, Lay and Salmon 9 

Infectious or Contagious 10 

Germ Theory — Opponents 11 

Affects the Organs— Immunity 12 

Death Rates Increases 13 

Worms — Intestine and Lung 14 

Exposure and Attacks = . 15 

Suggestions Followed 17 

CHAPTER 11. 
Preventive Treatise on Swine. 

Assist Nature 18 

Oxygen — Pure Air Necessary. 19 

Prevention Better Than Cure 20 

Directions— Preventive Treatment 21 

CHAPTER in. 
Treatise on Diseased Hogs. 

Symptoms Explained 24 

Drugs — Explanation 25 

Treatment for Sick Hogs, Cholera 26 

Swine Fever, Symptoms 30 

Pneumonia 31 

Indications — Symptoms of Disease 32 

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INDEX, 



CHAPTER IV. 

Recipes, Explanation and Directions. 

Page 

Recipe No. 1 33 

Recipes Nos. 2, 3 and 4 35 

Recipes Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 8 36 

Special Salt Tonic for Hogs, and Recipe No. 9 37 

Things Worth Knowing 39 

Medicine for Hog and Poultry 40-41 

Vaccination of Hogs ._ 42 

Government Offer 44 

CHAPTER V. 
Veterinary Department for Horses. 

Cattle, Sheep and Poultry 46 

How to Observe Diseases 47 

Colic— Botts, Treatment 48 

Pneumonia— Lung Trouble 50 

Dysen tery — Scours 51 

Profuse Staleing — Cold and Distemper 52 

Epizootic — Pink-Eye. 53 

Fistula— Poll Evil 54 

Ring-Bone — Curbs, Scratches, Thrush 55 

Foot Dressing, Injured Feet, Founder 57 

Galls and Boils, Eye Remedies 58 

Worms with Horses, Abortion with Cows 59 

Hoven, Bloat, Milk Fear, Garget 60 

Foot and Mouth Disease 61 

Scours with Calves or Lambs, Grub in Sheep, 

Maggots 62 

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INDEX. 

Page 

Hide-Bound, Urinary Trouble 63 

Murrain, Indigestion, Egat 64 

RECIPES FOR VARIOUS USES. 

Cooling Lotions, Eye Washes 66 

Callouses, Corrosive Liniment and May-Apple 

Liniment 67 

Dexter Liniment, Mouth Wash, Foot Oil 68 

Healing Powder, Louse Killer 69 

Lime and Sulphur Spray 70 

Cholera, Roup with Fowls . 71 

Rough Food for Fowls or Stock 72 



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